RED HAT ENTERPRISE VIRTUALIZATION 4.0 – Intro

In this blog we are discussing about RHV 4.0 Installation and administration topics. RHV 4.0 is the RedHat Enterprise Virtualization solution, which is based on oVirt project [open-source Virtualization project]. It is an enterprise-grade server and desktop virtualization platform built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux that offering infrastructure which is optimized for server and desktop virtualization.

RHV has two main components: RHV-H and RHV-M. Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisor (RHV-H) is a full-featured virtualization platform built from only a subset of RHEL components plus the Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM) which is used as a resource pool for RHV.

Red Hat Virtualization Management (RHV-M) is a virtual management console built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It interacts with individual RHV-H nodes using the Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM). A VDSM agent is running on each of the RHV-H nodes.